Arrows Quotes
Arrows Quotes
That I sang the original version of "I love rock n roll." That's a good start. I think that the majority of rock music fans are not aware of this fact. Carl Perkins got his due for writing and singing the first version of the rock classic "Blue Suede Shoes." This particular sort of critical recognition has eluded me. I was also the first foreign pop star to break into the domestic pop scene in Japan. I wrote a 1983 album title track for Lou Rawls ("When The Night Comes") that was the first recording to be taken into and played in outer space; it was taken up by Gulon Bluford, the first black astronaut in history.
Alan Merrill